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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The moche, Nazca and other civilizations of the coastal Peru subsided primarily off of this. | Agriculture |
| This culture which inhabited coastal Peru was the first Known south america Civilization. | Norte Chico Civilization |
| These lines were brushed away by oxidized surface sediments | Naxca Lines |
| This culture is clustered in semi-independent policies in located in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil | Xingu |
| This famous archaeological site has extensive granite walls with no mortar and was the seat of an empire that ruled over much of Africa during the European middle Ages. | The great Zimbabwe |
| Africa civilization with extensive trade to china | Swahili Coast |
| Great Zimbabwe was known for some of its fabulous gold artifacts, but who could only own them. | The king |
| This person set out to prove that the great Zimbabwe was constructed and inhabited by black Africans and not white biblical figures. | Gertrude Caton-Thompson |
| During apartheid, a lack of history was used to legitimize white rule and land claims while marginalizing black Africans, this archaeological site in south Africa helps to dispel the idea that blacks were not there before white. | Mapungubwe |
| The soldiers portrayed in this massive underground army were individualized and modeled off of real people. | Terracotta Army |
| This spectacular Buddhist temple in Cambodia was constructed in the 12th century as a Hindu Temple. | Angkor Wat |
| Emperor Ying Zheng of this dynasty was the first to Unite the warring provinces of China under a single imperial ruler. | Qin Dynasty |
| In an Yang and other Shang Dynasty settlements, these were used in divination rituals. | Oracle bones |
| This early dynasty buried its emperor and important officials with live human and animal sacrifices. | Shang Synasty |
| Although not as diverse as writing, this system of knotting ropes was the Incan Equivalent. | Quipu |
| This was the largest feature left by the Incan Empire. | Gran Ruta Inca |
| This spread to the Incas before the conquistadors | Small pox |
| These were the three forms of taxation the Inca required of their subjects | Labor, textile and agricultural |
| These monumental stone structures were used for food storage. | Qollqa |
| This site located in what is currently Mexico city, was once the capital city of the Aztecs. | Tenochititlan |
| This gruesome ritual was deeply rooted Aztec tradition used to appease the gods. | Human sacrifice. |
| This commodity was the most common Aztec form of money, and was used to make a favorite drink of the nobility. | Cocoa |
| These colorful written records tell us much about Aztec politics and life ways. | Codices |
| It was argued that the Aztecs used cannibalism as a staple food, but that seems unnecessary in light of the productivity of their agricultural fields including these floating gardens. | Chinampas |
| Photographic and phonetic elements, written on papyrus, or carved in stone comprise this ancient writing system. | Hieroglyphics |
| In Mesopotamia, the earliest writing system was used primarily for this purpose... | Accounting |
| The roots of Mesopotamian cuneiform can be traced to these object from the ninth millennium B.C. | Clay tokens |
| This Andean recording device uses knotted strings in a positional decimal system for numerical recording and calculation. | Qipu |
| The vast differences in wealth are seen in the burials from this Bulgarian Site. | Varna |
| European farming societies began to erect these massive stone structures around the fourth millennium B.C. | Megaliths |
| Evidence for a gradual transition from Mesolithic to neolithic in Europe comes from this archaeological in Greece. | Franchthi Cave |
| The bog people of northern Europe are associated with this archaeological period. | Iron age |
| The stone monuments of Neolithic Europe fall into these three categories. | Menhirs, henges, and tombs |
| A tablet discovered at Hierakonpolis depicts the exploits of this king, who united the lower and upper kingdoms of Egypt | Narmer |
| Caonpic Jars contain these byproducts of the mummification process. | Organs |
| According to Eqyptian beliefs, grave goods should be included for this purpose. | Make people more comfortable in their afterlife. |
| Origins fro these monuments can be traced back to the tomb architecture of pre-dynastic Egypt. | Pyramids |
| Unlike their Mesoamerican counterparts, Egyptian pyramids were used for this purpose | Royal burials |
| This mixture of copper and tin or arsenic was probably discovered by accident around 3000 B.C. | Bronze |
| Sophisticated furnaces and smelting techniques were required to produce items made of this metal. | Iron |
| The shang civilization is well known for its sue of this metal | Bronze |
| Craft technologies associated with the indus civilization were developed to a high degree at these two pre Indus settlements | Harappa and mohenjo-daro |
| This term is used to describe the differentiation of economic roles. | Division of labor. |
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